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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10526, 2 December 1916, Page 5

eroded end. and a safe barrier be placed across it. (2) The Coroner warmly commends the resource, courage, and endurance of_ Miss Kitty Sullivan, siiown after the accident. Although suffering from very severe injuries, she placed her sister in safety, thereby saving her life, and with a broken right arm, then ascended an almost vertical gravel bank more than 20 feet high, in order to summon assistance. SI: • immediately returned and _ descended the bank to help her companions. Such conduct is deserving of recognition.

A housewife in St. Kilda, Melbourne. . tells thi.-> attractive little anecdote as an I instance of the heights to which feminine 1 cheek will rise. She had a caller atabout I eleven o'clock on Sunday night. The culler ' was a young woman of about twenty-four, | respectably dressed and decent, looking. I "You advertised for a servant?" said the I stranger. "Yes, I did, but ." "It is a (curious time to call, is it not?" "I was coming on Saturday, but an accident, de- ' laved me. I have only been able to get j about again since lato this evening. Are I you suited'.'" The housewife was not suil- : *cd. and, having heard a plausible tale, re- | solved that this girl would do. "I hoped I I would be engaged," said the young woI man, "and have left a note with a carrier to liavo my dross baskets delivered here on Monday. The fact is, I did not want to go back f> the Coffee Palace because I cannot ] afTord it. If you will take me on at once ! I shall be so much obliged." She was taken on. She slept at the house or, Sunday night. she breakfasted O' Monday morning, and twenty minutes later sin- appeared, dressed to leave. "Aftrr all." die said. "I don't, think the place will -nit me."' The housewife was very indi"j mint, but her reproaches only drew Iht--1 amazing response: "The fact is. I missed ' my last train on Sunday night, and thought 1 would stay here."